These measures clearly haven’t gone far enough, as Apple continues to use Google Maps for its cloud-based services like Find My iPhone, which we assume they’d like to stop doing as soon as is humanly possible. Apple is keeping its cards close to its chest, but it looks as though something radical is coming down the pipe. Last week Apple posted a new job listing for a Maps Designer, which the Cupertino company hopes to have working on an cryptically “secret project.”

Of course, there’s a fair to middling chance that while its job offer is for a Maps position, Apple might have something bigger in mind. Apple’s job summary states that it’s looking for someone to work on an “exciting new system” involving “an advanced web platform upon which many of Apple’s future services will be based” that has “the potential to change the world”.

Apple’s products have been changing the world for years now, so this may not be hubris, but when it comes to its maps, we’re certainly not alone in wanting to see Apple get its act together.

Change can either be good, bad, or neutral, but if you’re used to something, change is almost always a little confusing. Sure, it doesn’t take long not to mind the lack of skeuomorphism in Apple’s iOS 7 design, but there are quite a few things about the new operating system that can be a little frustrating if you don’t know how to navigate them. Here are a few, along with their fixes:

Editing Safari’s “favorites:” When you open up Safari, you’ll probably see sponsored icons for Yahoo, Disney, and ESPN. To remove those, tap the bookmarks icon, then tap “favorites,” then “edit,” then the minus sign next to the link. To add your own, navigate to the desired site, tap “share” next to the url, then “bookmark,” then “location: favorites,” then “save.”

Closing apps: With iOS 6, pressing the home button twice would bring up all your open apps, after which you would press and hold until the minus sign appeared on the top left of the app icon. With iOS 7, you still press the home button twice, but once there you’ll need to swipe up on any open app you want to close.

Control Center: You can now access your device’s control center merely by swiping up from the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately this still works while you’re, say, playing Temple Run, and you probably don’t want your volume controls when you’re telling your character to jump. To disable this, go to Settings, then Control Center, then turn off “Access with Apps.”

Battery life: iOS 7 is a power hog, but it doesn’t have to be. The default allows mobile apps to refresh their content while they’re not on screen. If battery drain is a problem, go to Settings, then Background App Refresh, and toggle the switch to “off.” You will probably want to do this on an app-by-app basis, as GPS apps aren’t terribly useful if they’re not updating their content. Additionally, turning off the AirDrop feature (by swiping up to the Control Center and toggling it off) can disable it.

If you’ve found any minor annoyances with iOS 7 (and how to fix them), let us know in the comments!

Apple held its annual iPhone event last Tuesday, and predictably, a fair few blogs and commenters complained that the new devices don’t really do anything revolutionary. We’re perplexed by such complaints, for two reasons: 1) the iPhone has been a wildly successful product with good reason, so demands that Apple make it something fundamentally different than what it is don’t seem to make much sense, and 2) Apple did do something revolutionary. Two things, in fact: the fingerprint sensor and an entirely new phone model.

Perhaps not quite as annoying as that (but still pretty annoying) is the incessant stream of other people’s food that we’re subjected to in our social media news feeds. We’re not entirely sure where, when, or why filtered photographs of somebody else’s steaming plate of bibimbap became a thing, but by now the trend seems to be more or less unstoppable.

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, seems to be the motto behind a new free mobile app called Feedie, which hopes to take all those foodie pics and turn them into charity. It works like this: if you take a photo of a particular dish at any of the forty-seven participating restaurants and then post it to your social network of choice (Google+, Facebook, Twitter, or FourSquare), that restaurant will donate money to The Lunchbox Fund, a nonprofit organization that nobly provides food security to impoverished children. And it’s not an insignificant amount of money, either: one uploaded Feedie pic will trigger a donation that will cover one meal for one child.

Of course, we’re not just writing about Feedie because it’s a cool app, which it very definitely is. We’re writing about it because of its innovative approach to advertising and philanthropy. Feedie takes the pre-existing phenomenon of food photography and channels it into the very virtuous goal of feeding hungry children, while providing free advertising to restaurants that choose to participate in the program. As of this writing, a total of 326 meals have been provided to hungry children, and that’s a full month before its official debut at the Lunchbox Fund’s annual gala on October 9th.

We’re naturally delighted whenever a mobile app does something new, especially when that something is as innovative as Feedie. Now if only someone could think up a way to monetize selfies, we could cure all the ills of the world.

Apparently there are more and sassier comebacks in store for the iOS 7 version of Siri that’s due out next month if rumors are to be believed, but Siri’s sass is indicative of an underlying and ongoing discussion over the future of wearable tech. While it’s a fantastic piece of technology, Google Glass is suffering backlashes from privacy advocates and fashionistas alike as it tries to gain ground in the marketplace. The fact that athletes and others have been wearing their tech on their arms and wrists seems to make Apple’s push for the iWatch something of a safer bet.

Still, Siri is maturing, and while I’ve been using “she” and “her” thus far in this post, the iOS 7 version of Siri will come with the option of a male voice. (Strangely, this option has been available for foreign languages for a while.) Siri will also be undergoing some cosmetic changes in iOS 7, including a translucent skin, and initial reports also seem to suggest that she pulls up her results a lot faster than she did in previous OS iterations.

Of course, we’re still a long way away from the flirtatious computer voice in Star Trek, but the fact that Apple’s giving Siri the love she needs is good news for iPhone users everywhere.